Which do you prefer:

or ?
You will be allowed to change your position in a moment
Fact: people who drink score
15-20% better on tests (2010); it is
also the preferred choice of
celebrities (e.g. Mackelmore) and
successful business people (e.g.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs)
Pepsi is also less expensive and in some ways beneficial to your health (more vitamins)
Fact: is the preferred beverage
of 100% of all serial killers; the
production of coca cola leads to the
suffering of hundreds of thousands of
innocent animals every year due to
deforestation and melting ice caps

Coke also costs more and is dangerous to your health

Logical Fallacies
Mr. Hendy Industries
Learning Goal:

To understand what logical

fallacies are and how to
avoid them
 Basically, its a
bad argument.
Either you tried
What is a logical to make a good
fallacy? point or you are
making a bad
point on
purpose.
Appeal to Emotion

Argument made only to manipulate

emotions
Fear, Flattery, Hate, Love

Example: If you dont graduate from high

school, you will be poor and live in poverty the
rest of your life!
Appeal to Tradition

Argument suggesting that something is right just

because it has lasted a long time and its the way
things have always been done

Example: marriage has traditionally been between

a man and a woman, so therefore gay marriage
should not be allowed
Appeal to Authority

Argument suggesting that the evidence is correct

just because a famous or very knowledgeable
person said it

Example: Leading mathematicians recently stated

that BEDMAS should actually be SADMEB because
of the constancy of addition over multiplication
Appeal to Nature

Argument suggesting that something is good

just because it is natural or from nature

Example: the new coke is way better than the

old because this new one contains all
natural ingrediants
Argument from Silence

Argument suggesting that its evidence is correct

just because the other team has no evidence to
prove it wrong

Example: Well my data shows that 100% of fatal

driving accidents are caused by Justin Beiber music.
You say Im wrong, but were is your data, hmm?